Biden takes credit for Trump-signed bill

During a news conference earlier this month at the White House, President Joe Biden touted a consumer protection law that guards against patients being hit with unexpected medical charges.

“We just made surprise medical bills illegal in this country,” Biden said.

It’s true that his administration last year developed the rules and implemented the law before the Jan. 1, 2022, deadline, but Biden can’t take credit for creating it, according to The Associated Press. The act was signed by former President Donald Trump in December 2020, after the election but before Biden took office.

The bipartisan legislation is designed to protect insured patients from receiving surprise medical bills and unanticipated charges for out-of-network services. During an emergency, patients sometimes don’t know if a medical specialist, such as an anesthesiologist or radiologist, is covered by their insurance.

During a 2019 speech, Trump pushed for the bill as a chance to combat rising medical bills, The Washington Post reported.

“My administration is eager to work with both parties,” Trump said. “From what I understand, we have bipartisan support, which is kind of shocking.”

Vaccine didn’t kill Louie Anderson

Comedian Louie Anderson’s died from complications of a blood cancer, not from a COVID-19 vaccine, as social media posts claimed.
– Associated Press File Photo

Recently, as celebrities have died, social media users falsely list the COVID-19 vaccine as the cause of their deaths.

Following actors Betty White and Bob Saget on this path is comedian Louie Anderson, who died Jan. 21.

A recent Facebook post includes a screenshot of an Instagram post showing Anderson with two flight attendants and the caption, “It’s an early morning, but have Louie Anderson on our (flight). He’s off to do Conan.” Text with the Jan. 22 Facebook post begins, “Louie Anderson was a passenger on my cousin’s flight two days ago.”

The post goes on to say Anderson began to feel ill during the flight and that he had received a coronavirus vaccine a few weeks prior.

“Not true,” Anderson’s publicist Glenn Schwartz told PolitiFact.